A woman of a certain age who has three cats underfoot, and has the dream of filling her passport with stamps. Books, classical music, tea, cats, movies, art, fancy needlework, and anything else I can think of.

I found this one to be interesting, but it failed on several levels. Twelve men, plus one, form an impromtu jury to find out happened on a night several months earlier, when a woman is found beaten and bloody, a miner is found dead in his cabin, and a young man turns up missing. Set in the New Zealand gold rush of the 1860's there are all sorts of characters -- about twenty! -- and plenty of plot twists as well as shifting back and forth in time and place. Astrology, with some serious flaws, is used as a plot device, as well as spirituality and a seance. While most of the story gets tied up by the end, I was rather disappointed by this one. I give it four stars for the writing which gets very good in spots, and the research is fairly good, but overall, this is rather overwrought. Recommended, but with reservations.